Stornock

Why do all new punk bands sound whiny and like poorly executed indie music? Fidlar and Wavves are the ones dominating the scene (if it can even be called a scene). That just tells me punk is dead. Anyone know of some new but authentic punk bands?

Tristan_Geoff

I don't agree with your stance on Wavves and FIDLAR but garage punk revival is only the most saturated form of the moment, there's tons of authentic bands coming out; be that skate, ska, hardcore, and whatever else.

Try your hand at:

Stabbed in Back
The Big Ups
Young Widows
Spraynard
Abraskadabra
DC Fallout
Jump Street
Banner Pilot
Bomb the Music Industry!
Hate for State
Cave State
Crime Desire
Title Fight
Pissed Jeans
Ceremony
METZ
World's Scariest Police Chases
Pears
Self-Defense Family
Lumber Lung
Daniel Striped Tiger
The Hotelier
Streetlight Manifesto
Flesh Wounds
Skemata
Atlas Losing Grip
Loma Prieta
Basement
Tiger's Jaw
The Front Bottoms
Weekend Nachos
Code Orange Kids
Foxmoulder
Pup
Cerebral Ballzy
The Pine
KEN mode

Neapolitan

The Pine are more Post-Hardcore/Emo than "Punk."

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Tristan_Geoff

Yeah a few of these are. I'm trying to familiarize him with the current scene.

Neapolitan

They're not too modern, their last album was ten years ago. The OP was looking for "modern Punk." Which I don't know of any. Most indie bands are mostly in Garage, Psychedelia, lo-fi & somewhat super Twee, and Post-Punk revival phases. If you wait long enough it'll come around again.

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Tristan_Geoff

Really? I thought that came out in 2013. Guess I wasn't too well-informed on that.

Yeah, I'm aware of current punk bands too. The rest in the list fit that label, and I could name more if I wanted. At least where I am I hear a lot of these bands on college radio, I don't think it necessarily out of style right now.

JGuy Grungeman

Modern punk is easy to find on Bandcamp. Night Birds is a particularly good band. I highly recommend them. I'm no modern punk expert, but I look up a lot of grunge on BC, and with grunge usually comes punk. Also, Refused came out w/ a new album.

Stornock

Thanks; will explore your list. What I find is that often the seemingly "authentic" sounding punk bands emulate 90's punk bands and were just late to the game. Other than the garage punk that you mention, there doesn't seem to be much of a punk scene among young people. Maybe, they've transferred their rebellious, anti-establishment energy toward rap and (god forbid) pop.

Frownland

This would be interesting indeed. If anything I'd like to hear artist's philosophy on how they maintain being an anti-establishment band while still making music with the mind of being popular.

There's always going to be genuine punk at the high school level at least, imo. It'll carry over with the diehard enthusiasts, but I feel like teenagers are a market that punk will always find a fanbase in. There's some solid punk coming out on the noisier side of things these days, and that seems to really generate scenes because that's more closely related to live experiences (which noisy punk qualifies as one of the funnest live genres).

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Tristan_Geoff

I forgot to add a lot of noise punk bands to my list. I've failed everyone.